I rediscovered this poem recently and liked it all over again. Which is mostly noteworthy primarily because I’m not a big poetry buff.<\/p>\n
The Men That Don’t Fit In<\/b>, by Robert Service<\/p>\n
There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
\nA race that can’t stay still;
\nSo they break the hearts of kith and kin,
\nAnd they roam the world at will.
\nThey range the field and they rove the flood,
\nAnd they climb the mountain’s crest;
\nTheirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
\nAnd they don’t know how to rest.<\/p>\n
If they just went straight they might go far;
\nThey are strong and brave and true;
\nBut they’re always tired of the things that are,
\nAnd they want the strange and new.
\nThey say: “Could I find my proper groove,
\nWhat a deep mark I would make!”
\nSo they chop and change, and each fresh move
\nIs only a fresh mistake.<\/p>\n
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
\nWith a brilliant, fitful pace,
\nIt’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones
\nWho win in the lifelong race.
\nAnd each forgets that his youth has fled,
\nForgets that his prime is past,
\nTill he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead,
\nIn the glare of the truth at last.<\/p>\n
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
\nHe has just done things by half.
\nLife’s been a jolly good joke on him,
\nAnd now is the time to laugh.
\nHa, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
\nHe was never meant to win;
\nHe’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone;
\nHe’s a man who won’t fit in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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